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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Do all accesses to shared buffer headers
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Msg-id 17415.1129176714@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Do all accesses to shared buffer headers  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2005-12-10 at 18:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We do however have here a New Coding Rule that's good for all parts
>> of the backend: if you are accessing a spinlock-protected data structure
>> then you should be using a volatile-qualified pointer for it.

> I think this is worth documenting more clearly

BTW, forgot to reply to this part, but: have at it.

            regards, tom lane

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